Authorizing City Council's Committee on Public Safety to hold a public hearing to investigate current policies and procedures followed by the City of Philadelphia's Police Department, when purchasing and assigning police vehicles. This comes in light of the apparent negligent oversight of city resources that left twenty police vehicles sitting in a parking lot, for over six months "collecting dust instead of patrolling our neighborhoods," before being deployed.

WHEREAS

, The city is in an economic crisis; budget cuts proposed include: cutting arts and culture programs, closing recreation centers and pools, laying off police officers, etc.; and

WHEREAS

, The Police Department spent $600,000, purchasing twenty new fully-equipped Ford Crown Victorias, valued at $30,000 each, to be used as police vehicles; and

WHEREAS

, The twenty police vehicles sat unused in a parking lot;

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

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Authorizing City Council's Committee on Public Safety to hold a public hearing to investigate current policies and procedures followed by the City of Philadelphia's Police Department, when purchasing and assigning police vehicles. This comes in light of the apparent negligent oversight of city resources that left twenty police vehicles sitting in a parking lot, for over six months “collecting dust instead of patrolling our neighborhoods,” before being deployed.

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